MEDIA ADVISORY, Tuesday, June 19, 2007

CONYERS AND STARK WELCOME MICHAEL MOORE TO CAPITOL HILL

Press Conference, Briefing to Address For-Profit Health Care and the Crisis of the Uninsured

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Pete Stark (CA-13) will on Wednesday welcome Academy-Award winning director Michael Moore for a press conference and briefing on the for-profit health care system and the tens of millions of uninsured and underinsured Americans.

WHO:

* Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers
* Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Pete Stark
* Academy-Award winning director Michael Moore
* Additional Members invited.

WHAT: Press Conference and Briefing

The briefing will be conducted in a hearing-style format. Clips from “Sicko,” Moore’s new movie, will be screened.

WHERE: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building

WHEN:

* 1:30 p.m. Press Conference
* 2:00 p.m. Briefing

Segments

If you would like to experiment with different presentations of the video, we have created a 6' 33" excerpt, which you can view on YouTube, or download a 320x240 MP4 clip (75 Mbytes) or a full-res H.264 version (232 Mbytes). Music is the incomparable Orkestra Synthetique playing Flight of the Bumblebee.